Daniel Cassidy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:56:03 +0000

Blogspot has been known to wipe out blogs completely. I know a couple of people who had their blogs closed for no reason at all. It is good in the sense that it is easy to setup and maintain. It's better to host your own blog on your server. I just setup a Wordpress account. You can download their software and install it on your website in about 10 minutes.

AjiNIMC — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:14:48 +0000

I recently wrote one article on why blogspot will die soon. Can I put a link to the article at WMW (it is available under community building forum)?

The biggest factor is "no community involvement" for blogspot development. They think they can make the things perfect. "Community vs experts", I will always bet my money on community and thats wordpress. I myself had done some plugins for wordpress.

Blogspot is good for phase 1 of blogging as it is simple to start with but not good for second phase which needs advance integration with other products (some will be non-google). Blog is 75% about content and blogger but rest 25% can make some big change. 25% is about integration and promotion.
The problem with wordpress is that it was never accepted as a platform. I have already made the code open source where you can create multi blogs using wordpress as platform (one installation but multi blogs). If I have the permission I can put the link to the complete article.

Quote: If you want to try a free blogging service, give wordpress.com a whirl.

For free blog hosts you can go for wordpress.com, blogsome.com, hedir.com and many more sites that run wordpress as platform. Ask following questions to the host

1) Why are you providing me a blog free? What will you get from it?
2) How will you help me with marketing?
3) What flexibility I have in editing my blog?

Thanks,
Aji

andy206uk — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:33:40 +0000

If you want to try a free blogging service, give wordpress.com a whirl. It's much better than blogger (IMHO)

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:16:12 +0000

The only high-profile tech blogs on Blogspot that I know of are Google's own official, desktop, video and other blogs. According to Chris Pirillo, Blogspot died over a year ago, due to the overabundance of "splogs" or spam blogs. Maybe it's not a good idea in the long term for a tech blog -- you'll probably move to your own service eventually anyway.

But I don't think Blogspot will disappear anytime soon, in a relative sense. Maybe in a couple of years the nature of blogging will change and services like Blogspot will fall behind, who knows. Still, in the short term, since you don't have your own service, it may be a very good idea after all. There's nothing wrong with starting off on Blogspot to garner interest and readership, then outgrowing it.